Tuesday, October 01, 2013

Good Old Boys Pride and Passion

At the Bell Reunion this past weekend I heard an unusual
story, which reminded me of the movie THE PRIDE AND THE PASSION. The movie was directed by Stanley Kramer in 1957 and
starred Cary Grant, Frank Sinatra, and Sophia Loren. It was back in a time when the world was at
war with itself. ... when is it isn't?
The whole story seemed to be about transporting a giant cannon through
Spain. And you toss in France and England who love to get their
hands on the giant canon, the Weapon of Mass Destruction, and good looking Italian woman and you have the makings of a good movie. I don't remember much about the movie but
remember I liked the part where the cannon broke lose to the pull of gravity
while trying to pull it up a steep mountain and it going down the side at super
speed. And oh yes, I also enjoyed
watching Sophia Loren bath in a river one night. The water was almost transparent, but not
quiet.

In the movie Frank Sinatra was a leader of the Spanish guerrilla forces.

OK, that is what the movie was about. Now, about the story I heard: Back in the 1950s, a few good old Marietta
boys stole a cannon out of a historical park.
They did it for the fun of it, but once they had it they didn't know
what to do with it. They hid it behind a
service station on Roswell Street. I
remember the station, it had a large high bank behind it, not like most
stations that you could see all around
it from the street.

Finally the owner of the station told them he didn't want
that behind his station, for them to get rid of it. If I heard correctly, they returned it.

I was thinking the guerrilla is another word for rebel. Probably these good old boys would be
considered rebels, or guerrillas. And
they had a cannon to deal with. Doesn't
that remind you of Frank Sinatra and the movie THE PRIDE AND THE PASSION? Although I doubt if they wore makeup like the below movie poster.